Re: Software Engineering in Florida

[kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)]

In article <3828ACA7.7B376431@mitre.org> "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> writes:
>  Actually, I the more important argument goes to 471.003(2)(c):

I did too, the first time I read it, but on a closer reading, I no
longer saw that as key.

>>  (c)  Regular full-time employees of a corporation not engaged in the
>>  practice of engineering as such, whose practice of engineering for such
>>  corporation is limited to the design or fabrication of manufactured
>>  products and servicing of such products.

This is somewhat ambiguous, but I'm taking the "whose" to mean the
*employee* since I think that's the most clear meaning.

I'm having trouble understanding the point of this paragraph, but the issue
as I see it is that it only applies when the corporation is *not* doing
"engineering", but the person is.  In the software engineering case, neither
the person *nor* the corporation would be doing "engineering" according
to the definition of the law, and so that paraghraph would not apply.

This seems to cover a situation, say, wher a company is providing some
product, like a toaster, and hires an electrical engineer to help
design them.  This paragraph seems to imply that person need not be
a registered engineer, but I don't see why that should be the case.